Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 88
Fixing her eyes on one of the pilgrims, she mutters a spell, accompanied by a wild dance.
Who acts: enchantress · What happens: fix, mutter, accompany · To what, where: eyes, spell
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enchantress), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fixing | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 mutters | advcl |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Fixing | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Fixing | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 pilgrims | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pilgrims | det |
| 8 | pilgrims | pilgrim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fixing | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 mutters | nsubj |
| 11 | mutters | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 spell | det |
| 13 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mutters | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 accompanied | punct |
| 15 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 spell | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 dance | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 dance | det |
| 18 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dance | amod |
| 19 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 accompanied | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 mutters | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | gerund | enchantress not said here | enchantress's eyes | on one of the pilgrims | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 2 | mutter speech: assert | present | enchantress | a spell | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Topic | ||||
| 3 | accompany | participle | a spell not said here | by a wild dance | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by dance=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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